Aida Mehonic
@amehonicOn Mat Leave atm; Senior Researcher leading a team of Research Application Managers (RAMs) at @turinginst; open infrastructure @turingway; physics PhD; she/her
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Today at Safeguarded AI, we’re announcing: • an informal call for Expressions Of Interest in helping form a new nonprofit AI lab in 🇬🇧, to be seeded by ARIA funding [TA2] • a formal Call for Proposals for applications partners to build domain-specific products [TA3] • and:
🤝 Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio has joined us as the programme’s Scientific Director. In this role, he’ll provide scientific + strategic advice across the programme to PD @davidad and our R&D Creators. 2/5 Read more: open.substack.com/pub/ariaresear…
We’re excited to share two new developments in our Safeguarded AI programme. 🧵 1/5
This is why we nurture and develop Research Infrastructure Roles at @turinginst!! I'm proud to have founded and to be leading a team of Research Application Managers focussed on bridging the research 'valley of death. 👀turing.ac.uk/research/resea… and the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/…
Academia cares whether an idea is new. It doesn't really have to work Industry only cares if an idea works. Doesn't matter if it's new This creates a gap. Actually a few gaps:
This week, we have been hosting our 10th (🔟❣️) Book Dash! Book Dashes are our bi-annual contribution event – where folks from around the world get together to work on The Turing Way. This time we have folks working on management, data feminism, accessibility – and more.
Announcing Kyutai: a non-profit AI lab dedicated to open science. Thanks to Xavier Niel (@GroupeIliad), Rodolphe Saadé (@cmacgm) and Eric Schmidt (@SchmidtFutures ), we are starting with almost 300M€ of philanthropic support. Meet the team ⬇️
I strongly disagree that regulating AI* severely limits open-source** AI. I do agree that regulation done poorly can harm openness, and/or create severe issues throughout AI, in ways that are not a net good. 🧵 * in any/all forms ** colloquial usage; includes "open science" etc.
Regulating AI Severely Limits Open-Source AI Some folks including Elon Musk hold the position that you should aggressively regulate AI while at the same time being pro open-source. Unfortunately, calling for aggressively and pre-maturely regulating AI will likely severely limit…
Slowly tuning back into the AI debate after a few quiet months devoted to childcare and family and I find this 👇 “Auto-Regressive LLMs that merely optimize objectives at learning time are intrinsicly unsafe.” Y LeCun
That would require coming up with a new architecture that *guarantees* that the objectives (which includes the guardrails) are minimized with respect to every answer at *inference time*. I call this Objective-Driven AI, but it's not a new concept. Auto-Regressive LLMs that…
What a brilliant session. Congratulations to all those who pitched. #AI: Ambitious and Inspiring @turinginst #AIUK #Pitchfest
Woooo! Talk for #AIUK done! Stop Breeding Unicorns! (Invest in diverse teams instead 💕) Slides are CC-BY, please do reuse: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
💥🚨Massive job Klaxon🚨💥 We have a new role going at @wellcometrust ✨Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer✨ This role will sit on our Executive Leadership Team to help drive our EDI strategy £211,500K Apply by 5th Mar Please retweet wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellcome…
The European Standards Organisations have been charged with developing #harmonised #standards to support the implementation of the #EU #AIAct. Join us for a webinar to hear directly from the chair of the CEN-CENELEC joint committee for #AI. Register➡️ bit.ly/3jdkrMD
1 more week to go! Apply to join this fascinating area of work on Digital Twins. The deadline is 29 Jan! Drop me a DM/email if you have any questions. #jobs #CommunityManager
🌱 Senior Community Manager 🌳 👉 cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/se… ⏳ Deadline 29 January 2023 🗓️ 3 years 💰 £49,025 (+ benefits) 🤸🏼 Flexible working as standard Joining @MalvikaSharan’s amazing team 🌸
🌱 Senior Community Manager 🌳 👉 cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/se… ⏳ Deadline 29 January 2023 🗓️ 3 years 💰 £49,025 (+ benefits) 🤸🏼 Flexible working as standard Joining @MalvikaSharan’s amazing team 🌸
🐏 Research Application Manager 👉 cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/re… ⏳ Deadline 29 January 2023 🗓️ 3 years 💰 £49,025 (+ benefits) 🤸🏼 Flexible working as standard Joining @amehonic’s amazing team 🌟
We are on the front-page of @hackernews atm 😯
Excited to share the first comprehensive study of the #opensource ecosystem in #sustainability and #climate technology together with @protontypes & @irinimalliaraki 🎉📢 ➡️ report.opensustain.tech
Such a fun and provoking article to read in your first week back at work to get inspired - thanks for sharing @gedankenstuecke open.substack.com/pub/experiment…
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